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"No, you're the dragon !"

Advantages: martial arts scenes with Brandon, action, bit of romance, Powers Boothe
Disadvantages: intro, 'hero' tagline, ok acting by Brandon

Jake Lo (Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee)attends college and finds himself at a demo for China, while returning to the campus. There he meets Paul Yang (Dustin Neguyen), who is an activist trying to raise money and needs Jake to attend, as he was a witness of a massacre in China, which this Demo relates to. He refuses to attend. Meanwhile in mainland China a mafia boss called Tony Cerrano (Nick Mancusco)meets with a former drug runner of his Kinman ...
...gettting angry at him for not helping. Sadly, this incident leads to worse later....... During life drawing class Jake gets to know a girl, who, after seeing his drawing asks him out for a date. Unsuspecting Jake ends up going to the location only to discover that it was a setup and he ended up going to a function to raise money started by Paul Yang. While at the function Tony turns up with some goonies, kills one of the money donors right in front ...

thepunisher 25.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Rapid Fire (DVD)

Kickboxer Act of War

Advantages: Some decent fight scenes
Disadvantages: Very predictable

Act of War, the 3rd Kickboxer film, is a prime example of not knowing when to stop a good thing. The first 2 films were pretty good, and had a good storyline. This lost the way. Now in Rio de Janeiro and robbed by a couple of kids, David and Xion end up befriending the children and uncovering an illegal ring. David, naturally, ends up fighting the star attraction at the end, and beating him of course. and all turns out good. It's very predictable ...
...more. There are some decent fight scenes, but not anywhere near as good as the first 2 films. Apparently, there were quite a few Kickboxer films after this one, which I didn't bother to watch. So far as I'm concerned they should have stopped at the 2nd. ...

vwelsby 15.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Kickboxer 3 - The Art Of War (DVD)

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Confuses Audience

Advantages: See what life might have been like during the Qing Dynasty
Disadvantages: it left the viewer confused with unanswered questions

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon takes place during the Qing Dynasty and tells the story of woman and men warriers and a sword known as the Green Destiny. I was utterly confused when watching this movie and had a hard time grasping my head around the plot. This story line was very difficult to follow and was needed to be searched on the Internet to discover the plot. In my opinion, the movie didn't answer any questions that were set up in the beginning ...
...plot and the characters of the story were to confusing that it was distracting from the effects included. Personally, I beleive that Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was a pointless movie in which there was no plot but just a series of random events that made transitions through the movie. ...

secret23 19.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (DVD)

Must See - Brilliant & Ingeneous martial arts!

Advantages: Culturally accurate (As I can tell), Comical, Excellent martial arts & Choreography.
Disadvantages: Not too deep, more for action than story.

I watched this movie as a recommendation from a friend. - And I'm glad I did. This is one of Jackie Chans' first films and helped hurtle him into stardom. Don't be put off by my special effects rating, a good martial arts film doesn't need them! The choreography is outstanding and carries the film from start to finish. The story is of a young unruly martial arts student (Jackie) who is forced by his father to leave town to train with a legendary ...
...of all, feared by new apprentices'. The young Jackie later discovers the legend is all but an old drunk. He dismisses him, until later through a funny and riveting series of events their paths meet again. As the film continues, Jackie's character, Wong Fei-Hung, is taught 'drunken Kung Fu'. In the mean time it is revealed an assassin has been sent after Wongs' father. I think it is plain to see that this is soley a martial arts movie; the story there ...

Infinite7 27.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Drunken Master (DVD)

Kick It To The Man!

Advantages: Great karate action and cute love story!
Disadvantages: None to say.

I have loved the Karate Kid movie since it first came out when I was young. I was not a karate enthusiast or anything like that but I found the movie to be entertaining and enjoyable to watch over and over again. Ralph was a young teen idol when this movie came out and Elizabeth was a great counterpart for the show. She adds a little romance to the show! No one will ever forget Pat and his unique karate teaching. "Wax on, wax off" will forever be ...
...would capture anyones eye. The championship is obviously the most climactic moment but I found it to be suspenseful even though you knew that Ralph was going to try the "crane technique". Now that the DVD is out with special features, well...I won't be missing out on this. And if you enjoy this one, I suggest getting Karate Kid II as well - another inspiring story of courage and strength. And if you like Elizabeth Shue in the Karate Kid, I suggest ...

Mom4more 22.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Karate Kid (Special Edition) (DVD)